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Bloomsbury presents Big Data: Does Size Matter?, written and read by Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim...

In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited a debate about private citizens who reveal government secrets that should be exposed but may endanger the lives of others.

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are...

The Hostage Effect is a wake-up call to a world in quiet crisis. Written by internationally recognized hostage negotiator and peacekeeper J. Paul Nadeau, this book explores how fear, manipulation, and psychological control are keeping individuals and entire societies in a state of silent captivity. Through gripping real-life stories and profound insights, it reveals how power structures —political, corporate, even personal —can strip away our agency and condition our compliance. But this is also a guide to freedom.

A deep dive into how our precious health data is slipping away and the paths to reclaiming it. Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. While this can be helpful for health agencies to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Scams are no longer obvious. They do not always arrive as broken emails, strange links, or suspicious strangers. Today, they can look like a message from your bank, a call from someone you love, a fake emergency, a familiar face, or a perfectly normal...

If you have even a shred of common sense left in you, then the truth should already be screaming at you from above. The streaks that linger for hours, the hazy white veil that dulls the sun, the grid-like patterns that crisscross an otherwise clear sky—these are not the skies our grandparents knew. These are not natural phenomena. These are the fingerprints of something deliberate, something engineered. Stratospheric aerosol injection, solar radiation management, climate intervention—whatever euphemism the establishment wants to slap on it, the reality remains the same. We are being sprayed.

Is the New World Order merely a fringe conspiracy theory—or is it a chilling reality unfolding right before our eyes? This book dares you to uncover the truth. As humanity spirals further into social and political chaos, the warning signs—so many times broadcast and ignored—have become impossible to dismiss. We've been lulled into complacency, manipulated by fear, and distracted by carefully orchestrated lies. All the while, a hidden agenda advances in the shadows: the rise of a totalitarian one-world regime.

Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information—including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations—all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.

Warum KI keine Ahnung hat und trotzdem alles kann. 2023 fing die Künstliche Intelligenz an, zu schreiben und zu sprechen wie ein Mensch. Damit steht die Welt vor einem fundamentalen Umbruch. Unsere Zivilisation, die Art und Weise, wie wir leben und arbeiten, wird so stark verändert werden wie durch die Erfindung des Internets. Noch lässt sich nur erahnen, welches Ausmaß an Innovationen in allen Lebensbereichen nun möglich ist. Fest steht aber, dass wir diese technische und gesellschaftliche Revolution nur dann in unserem Sinne steuern können, wenn wir sie und ihre Pioniere kennen und verstehen.

A top-secret manual for training CIA field agents in deception and sleight-of-hand was thought to be a rumor…until a single surviving copy was discovered in the agency’s archives. In 1953, a top-secret manual teaching agents sleight-of-hand and other deception techniques was written for the...

Read by the author, Tiffany Jenkins 'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating and full of surprises' – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen 'It is refreshing - and empowering - to read such a nuanced, thoughtful history of this slippery concept' – Kate Fox, author of Watching the English...

Known as artificial intelligence, experts warn that the technology comes with great benefits, but also with great warnings. What will we sacrifice for the benefits of this new world? Will we sacrifice our jobs and human relationships for robots? Will we allow machines to read our minds and sacrifice privacy for the benefit of crime reduction? Will we merge with machines and manipulate our genes and DNA to obtain longevity?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late. “In the spirit of Thomas Paine’s Revolution-era Common Sense, this manifesto challenges us to...

Kameras mit Gesichtserkennung überwachen unsere Straßen, und Versicherungsgesellschaften setzen telefonische Lügendetektoren ein. Beim Einkaufen, Geldabheben und Autofahren, wenn wir telefonieren und im Internet surfen: Überall geben wir höchstpersönliche Daten von uns preis. Immer öfter nutzen skrupellose Geschäftemacher das für ihre Zwecke schamlos aus - und auch die Polizei interessiert sich sehr für diese Daten. Denn die digitalen Spuren, die wir unablässig hinterlassen, lassen sich fast unbegrenzt speichern, kombinieren und analysieren - und jedes Mal verlieren wir ein Stück mehr unserer Privatsphäre.

Read by the author, Madhumita Murgia, this audio edition includes a fascinating exclusive author interview, led by the global AI lead at publisher Pan Macmillan, Sara Lloyd. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 What does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing...

An eye-opening look at the small communities of propagandists revolutionizing politics, culture, and society. “Essential and riveting reading.” —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation Invisible Rulers is about a profound transformation in power and influence that is altering our...

Aos 25 anos, sem dinheiro, sem perspectivas e — como todo bom millennial — à procura de um emprego que lhe trouxesse propósito, Anna Wiener deixou o mercado editorial em Nova York para tentar a vida na fervilhante e promissora San Francisco. No Vale do Silício, ela se viu em um mundo repleto de extravagâncias e empreendedores inexperientes que buscavam a todo custo poder, glória e, claro, progresso.

Pilotée par le consortium Forbidden Stories, ce livre est une enquête sur le scandale du logiciel Pegasus que de nombreux Etats, comme le Maroc, le Mexique ou les Emirats arabes unis, ont utilisé pour espionner en toute illégalité des journalistes, des militants ou des responsables politiques.

Marie Grosset est Agent Territorial Spécialisé en École Maternelle (ATSEM). De sa plume sincère et touchante, elle raconte à travers le prisme de témoignages saisissants, la souffrance de ses collègues. Elle explique sans complaisance le pouvoir de leurs différentes hiérarchies qui souvent, les abîme, les maltraite, et les conduit parfois au pire. Avec toute sa sensibilité, elle évoque ses propres expériences, celle d'une maman essayant de protéger son fils contre la folie d'une enseignante, mais aussi, son parcours professionnel qui l'a emmenée un jour aux portes de la mort.